Alumni News
January 08, 2017
Improving Education
Lisa Williams (B.A. ’98, Secondary Education; M.A. ’04, Educational Leadership) was recently selected to participate in the Gerstacker Fellowship Program through Saginaw Valley State University, an initiative that, according to the SVSU website, includes 11 teachers, principals, superintendents and program administrators from across Michigan who will receive concentrated leadership training...
January 08, 2017
Environmentally Friendly Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneur behind an environmentally friendly home gadget will be the next speaker in the Entrepreneurship Forum speaker series at Western Michigan University’s Haworth College of Business. Karen Smoots (B.B.A. ’99, Marketing), president and CEO of The Green Glove Dryer, will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, Jan. 13, in 2150...
December 21, 2016
Alumna Named Seita Director
A longtime Western Michigan University staff member has been tapped to head the acclaimed Seita Scholars support program for former foster youth. Ronicka D. Hamilton (BSW '02; M.A.'06, Counseling Psychology; M.A.'12, Educational Leadership), senior campus coach for the program, will take over as its director, effective Jan 3, 2017. She...
November 29, 2016
Ready O? Let's Go!
When Bronco football hits the field you can expect to hear plenty of fans shouting, “Row the Boat!” but 50 years ago the players weren’t thinking about rowing, they were shouting, “All Set? You Bet! Ready O? Let’s Go!” That was the battle cry of Coach Doolittle, who in 1966...
November 29, 2016
Honoring a Friend and Mentor
If it wasn’t for Mohammad Hossein Yassaman (B.A.'77, Economics; M.A.'78, Operations Research), Dr. Hashem Akhavan-Tafti’s (M.A.'88, Chemistry) years as a student in the United States would have been profoundly different. Without Yassaman, Akhavan-Tafti would have never ended up at Western Michigan University, a move that he says “saved his life.”...
November 29, 2016
Cats, Kittens, and Limericks
Fifty years after earning a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Western Michigan University as Janice Heger -- and 22 years after retiring from a career in public school libraries as Jan Major-- she finally released a book of her own. It is titled “Of Cats and Kittens: A Book...